On Wednesday, 4 July 2012 09:20:11 UTC+1, Brian Watson wrote:

On Tue, 3 Jul 2012 04:51:08 -0700 (PDT), SB wrote:

Railway workers jailed for stealing £1.5m worth of track to sell for
scrap

http://www.metro.co.uk/news/903975-r...sell-for-scrap

Wow, used rusty rails are worth, what is it, 7.5k a tonne? What are
they made of?

It beats me why a massive tidy up isn't launched to gather up all the old
bits of rail and other substantial metalwork that is left alongside the
tracks after a maintenance job.

There must be money in all that metal, otherwise why would the rascals take
such a pleasure in "recycling" it.

I think it may be useful to have spare rails along the route in case a rail breaks.